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-gstocuI 1671,) +===== Natalia Borissova's notes about Non Green Gardening (NGG) during 'Gardener and Machinist in Residence' at Time's up ===== 
-Howe + 
-==== Mushroom-log culture ====+  * [[non_green_revolution|The Non-Green (R)evolution]] 
 +  * more notes at http://aa-vv.org/node/133 
 + 
 +==== Visit#1 14.-18.3.12 aims to: ==== 
 + 
 +  * Meet the site and analyze the given environment from the 'fungamental' perspective (sun/shadow, wind, humidity, type of plants, trees, garden wastes, inhabitants, conditions for myco/perma-oriented creativity)  
 +  * Determine suitable, desirable mushroom varieties and locations for the next visit devoted to the practical integration and association of mushrooms and plants  
 +  * Inoculate some available logs for the indoor/outdoor colonization  
 +  * Sketch out NGG timeline, milestones and 'events' up to October 2012 
 +  * Harvest some more logs 
 +  * Theoretical research  
 +  * Process documentation along the way 
 === List for materials making a mushroom log indoor:=== === List for materials making a mushroom log indoor:===
    
-  * Logs +  * Logs (hardwood) 
-  * Sawdust and wood chips of the same trees +  * Sawdust and wood chips (hardwood) 
-  * Spawn  +  * Mushroom spawn  
-  * Wood twist drill/<del>14 mm</del> 11 mm+  * Wood twist drill/10 mm
   * Beeswax   * Beeswax
   * Paintbrush   * Paintbrush
   * Mallet (preferably with a rubber head)   * Mallet (preferably with a rubber head)
-  * Heat source 
   * Some covering material for the logs to keep moist (transparent garbage bags or so)   * Some covering material for the logs to keep moist (transparent garbage bags or so)
-  * 3-4 flower pots (or any found containers, or Pflanz-taschen set) big enough to be used for putting  1-3  logs upright into it and keep indoor.+  * 3-4 flower pots (or any found containers, or Pflanz-taschen set) big enough to be used for putting 1/3 logs upright into it to keep indoor.
   * Chainsaw    * Chainsaw 
-  * Hydrogen peroxide (optional)+  * 3% Hydrogen peroxide 
   * Moisture meter/Feuchtigkeitsmesser (optional)   * Moisture meter/Feuchtigkeitsmesser (optional)
 +  * Heat source around ( to melt the beeswax)
  
-=== Host-logs available for the visit 14-18.3.12: === +=== Host-logs available for the visit 14-18.3.12 === 
-   + 
-  * Ash (2 x 100/20sm) +  * Ash (2x100/20sm) 
-  * Alder (1 x 100/20sm)+  * Alder (1x100/20sm)
   * Beech    * Beech 
-  * Oak 
   * Birch   * Birch
  
-=== Mushroom species ordered ===+=== Mushroom spawns ordered ===
  
-  * 1 Changeable agaric mushroom, 50 inoculated plugs +  * 1 **Changeable agaric** mushroom, 50 inoculated plugs 
-  * 1 Nameko, 50 inoculated plugs +  * 1 **Nameko**, 50 inoculated plugs 
-  * 1 Elm oyster mushroom, 50 inoculated plugs+  * 1 **Elm oyster** mushroom, 50 inoculated plugs
  
 === Matching type of wood to type of mushroom === === Matching type of wood to type of mushroom ===
  
-  * __Changeable agaric__/Beech, Birch and Alder+  * __**Changeable agaric**__/Beech, Birch and Alder
   (Oak, __Ash__, Poplar, Willow, Edible chestnut – possible; Conifers - less)   (Oak, __Ash__, Poplar, Willow, Edible chestnut – possible; Conifers - less)
-  * __Nameko__/__Beech, Oak__, Birch+  * __**Nameko**__/__Beech, Oak__, Birch
   (Poplar, Willow, healthy wood from fruit trees – possible)   (Poplar, Willow, healthy wood from fruit trees – possible)
-  * __Elm oyster mushroom__/Beech, Poplar, Linden (lime), Maple, Willow, Aspen, __Alder and Birch__.+  * __**Elm oyster**__/Beech, Poplar, Linden (lime), Maple, Willow, Aspen, __Alder and Birch__.
   (do not grow well on Oak)   (do not grow well on Oak)
  
-==== Timeline ==== +==== Meeting notes (Tim, Marc, Natalia) ====
  
-14.– 18.3.12 aims to:+Beginning of May: garden and mushrooms 
 +Inside: quickly growing. Multiple types, different methods and substrates 
 +Calendar of various results. Keeping track of what works:  
 +   * Wood type 
 +   * Mushroom type  
 +   * Location 
 +   * Method 
 +   * Substrate recipes 
 +   * How to sit the mushroom logs, type of bed layered, content and construction
  
-  * meet the site and analyze the garden from the 'Fungamental' perspective (substrates, sun/shadow, wind, humidity, type of plants, trees, garden wastes, inhabitants, etc., a well as the conditions for myco/perma -oriented creativity) +==== Plans ====
  
-  * determine mushroom varieties (suitable, desirable) and locations for the next visit dedicated to the practical integration (associating mushroom and plant/roots to benefit both) of edible fungi into the garden. 'Garden with a Mycorrhizal twist' so to say.. +   * Out the back, narrow, playground, different beds, i.e. multiple structures of layers, different logs. Burying some logs in the ground (completely and 1/3) to soak up water from the ground. Danger of animals digging the beds up. 
 +      * 20-30 cm wide, depth of wood chips/sawdust 2 x 5-10cm 
 +      * Inoculated logs completely buried in soil, horizontally 
 +      * Inoculated logs upright, 1/3 flower pots indoor and in soil outside 
 +      * Substrates 
 +      * Mushroom types: Elm oyster, (King stropharia, Shaggy mane - next visit/garden), Nameko, Shiitake (slimy and delicious), Leion's mane, Changeable agaric. Mixing mushroom mysilia is not good.  
 +      * Some logs partially buried (soil, pots, in/outdoor) first meeting 
 +   * Tomato beds: half-half wooden chips-sawdust, mycelium and soil (pizza-bed). Layers for mycelium: soil, wood chips, inoculated grains, wood chips, paper/card with holes, soil with plants into the holes: tomatoes, basil,... extra foods, e.g. dog food/cat soup should be good for mushrooms 
 +   * Make connection with Mykologische Arbeitsgemeinschaft, Botanischer Garten in Linz and local fungi-addicted people
  
-  * inoculate some available logs for the indoor colonization (up to the next visit) to save time and get some colonized logs for the outside 'transplantation', when the danger of frost passes+==== Timeplan ====
  
-  * do theoretical research while working+   * 14-18.3.12  
 +      * Inoculate the logs we have and store them where appropriate. 
 +      * Some logs buried - need some sawdust. 
 +      * Prepare the first log-beds out the back 
 +      * Chainsaw to size 
 +      * Woodchips with the electric plane and pasteurize them
  
-  * generate the project's site/process documentation along the way+   * Mid April fresh sawdust and wood chips - 2 weeks beforehand is optimal. 3 weeks less so but okay. 
 +   * Also collect used espresso grounds.
  
-  * sketch out the project's timeline, milestones and 'events' +   * 1st week in May 
-  * harvest some more logs+     * 7-10 days 
 +     * Setting up more or less everything! 
 +     * Workshop on 5th May - 'Spawn-2-substrate techniques, low-tek propagation' 
 +     * Materials all prepared: spawn, logs, beeswax, chips, sawdust, coffee grounds 
 +     * Workshop for people to come and take home a next generation 
 +     * Workshop people making the logs for us and maybe taking one with them - knowledge exchange 
 +     * Indoor wood chips and grains - this is for the June 'clone party' 
 +     * Get in contact with Leos friend (mushroom expert) - get details off Leo/set a time for an informal meeting
  
-==== Meeting notes ==== +   * Third phase depends on when the mushrooms come. 2 weeks later for indoor. Outdoor will be even later (2 month) - late July through October. 
-Beginning of May: planting garden and mushrooms +   * Logs might take 0.5 years to start and be (fully) productive. 
-Inside: quickly growing. multiple types,  +     * Cloning event in June - say around 18-27 June 
-Calendar of various results. Keeping track of what works:  +     * We will see the mycelium 2 weeks beforehand. It looks like a cake. Then shock it (light, maybe cold), open it slightly (fresh air), wait a few days 3-4, then pinning. Then 7 days to the mushroom. 5-7 days of mushrooms before they dry out.  
-   * wood type,  +     * Cloning from stems. 
-   * mycelium type,  +     * Main event mid/end September. Details to follow. 
-   * where,  +    
-   * type of bed layered, content and construction+   * Ongoing - every 2-3 years beds expending. Logs can produce 2-8 years depending on the type of mushroom, wood, size of the log and conditions. 
 +==== Practical implementations during Natalia Borissova's residence 01/14.03 - 18.03 ==== 
  
-Plans: +   * Outdoor:  
-   * Out the back, narrow, playground. different beds, i.e. multiple structures of layers, different logs. burying some logs in the ground to soak up water from the ground. danger of animals digging the beds up. +     * Elm/2 x Beech/plugs (upright, 1/3 into the soil) 
-      * 30-40 cm wide, depth of wood chips / sawdust 2 x 5-10cm +     * Changeable agaric/1 x Ash, 1 x Birch, 1 x Alder/plugs (upright, 1/3 into the soil) 
-      * inoculated logs completely buried in soil, horizontally +     * Nomeko/2 x Beech/plugs, 1 x Birch (long configuration/soil) 
-      * 3 substrates +     * Leon's mane/2 x Beech/old grains (upright, 1/3, soil)
-      * 3-4 mushroom types: elm oyster, kinstropharia, shaggy mane, Nameko (slimy and delicious). mixing mushroom types is not good. we should make sure we have easily identifiable mushrooms.  +
-      * some logs partially buried first meeting.+
  
-   * tomato beds: half-half mycelium and soil. layers for mycelium: soil, wood chips, inoculated grains, wood chips, paper / card with holes, soil with plants into the holes: tomatoes, basil,... extra foods, e.g. dog food should be good for mushrooms+   * Indoor:    
 +     * Oysters/sawdust + coffee/stem butts (flower pot) 
 +     * Leon's mane/sawdust + coffee/(old)grains (log upright 1/3, flower pot) 
 +     * Changeable agaric/plugs/1 x Birch, 1 x Alder (log upright 1/3, flower pot) 
 +     * Oysters/sawdust + coffee/stem butts (flower pot) 
 +     * Shiitake/sawdust + coffee/grains (flower pot) 
 +     * Elm/sawdust/plugs (2 x toilet paper)
  
 +Pix: 
  
-   * inside: elm oysters, planting now. 26 degrees is optimal.  wrapped in plastic. forget them for a month.+http://aa-vv.org/node/147
  
 +http://www.flickr.com/photos/times_up/sets/72157629601830295/
  
-   * changeable agaric, Kuehbomysy mutabilis  (Stockschwämmchen) 
-   * 26 degrees is the optimal temperature. 
  
 +==== Visit#2 4-13.5 aims to: ====
 + 
 +  * 'SHROM-SHROOM' WORKSHOP: Some non-sterile methods and simple procedures, fast-to-grow mushroom-varieties, experimental substrates and growing mediums for starting up your potential non-green-garden at home, yard and any other in/outdoor habitat. 
 +  * NGG indoor
 +  * NGG inter-planted with GG. Bed-culture outdoor. (Artificial beds in front - experimental 'hanging myco-bed' with (plants/kitchen greens and mushrooms interplanted)
 +  * Myco bed-culture outdoor ('Stopharia path', Stopharia straw bed, 'Hugelkultur raised bed'=potato interplanted with mushrooms oysters)
  
-   * mushrooms growing from themselves - what are the dangers of cross-infection, other types of mycelium. using temperature to control which ones survive. +=== Material for the workshop and indoor garden: ===
  
-Timeplan +  * Mushrooms spawn  
-   * this time.  +  * Fresh (Wheat) straw 
-      * inoculate (all) the logs we have older than 2 weeks. these logs should be stored where appropriate. +  * Hardwood chips 
-      * some logs buried - need some sawdust. +  * Hardwood, sawdust or Hartholz-Pellets 
-      * prepare the first bed out the back +  * Hardwood logs, 10-20 cm diameter x 50-60 cm long 
-      * chainsaw to size +  * Coconut coir/kokosfaser 
-      * woodchips with the electric plane and pasteurize them+  * Lime (limestone)/calcium carbonate (CaCO3)/garten kalk/kalkhydrat (affects soil pH) 
 +  * Garden gypsum aka calcium sulfate (CaSO4) 
 +  * Recycled pelleted paper fiber (optional) 
 +  * Used coffee grains  
 +  * Vermiculite (optional) 
 +  * Paper/nursery pots (optional) 
 +  * Paper plates or plastic plates 
 +  * Ordinary trash bags (transparent) 
 +  * 3% peroxide solution 
 +  * Old cotton pillow (to soak straw and w. chips) 
 +  * Paper grocery or paper lawn sized bags (to cover totem-logs) 
 +  * Plastic bags, black or white, sized (to completely enclose totem-logs and 
 +close over the top) 
 +  * Bran(Kleie) 
 +  * Hay mini-bales (optional) 
 +  * Color pHast strips with a pH 4 to 10 range to measure the soil pH 
 +  * Horse poo (optional) 
 +  * Cow poo (optional) 
 +  * Chicken manure (optional) 
 +  * Wild bird seed 
 +  * Vegetable oil (optional) 
 +  * Kelp meal (optional)
  
-   * mid April fresh sawdust and wood chips - 2 weeks beforehand is optimal. 3 weeks less so but okay. +//to collect://
-   * also collect espresso grounds - helps balance the soil pH - get a few days before Natalia arrives.+
  
-   * 1st week in May +  * Cardboard boxes/egg-boxes 
-     * 7-10 days +  * Egg shells 
-     * setting up more or less everything! +  * Coffee (clean pot/bag. do not mix it with anything else. keep it covered) 
-     * workshop on 5th May +  * Newspapers 
-     * Materials all prepared: plugs, logs, beeswax, chis, sawdust, coffee grounds +  * Cotton waste (cloth etc) 
-     * cap for spore printing or for more mycelium +  * Containers/Laundry baskets with holes 
-     * workshop for people to come and take home a next generation +  * Human/animal urine (the fresh one;) 
-     * try making plugs and the inoculated grains - this might be too hard +  * Dry (oak) leaves (parks, forest)
-     * workshop people making the logs for us and maybe taking one with them - knowledge exchange +
-     * indoor woodchips and grains - this is for the June clone party+
  
 +=== Artificial mixed-garden in front - 'hanging myco-beds with kitchen garden and mushrooms interplanted === 
  
-   * Third phase depends on when the mushrooms come. 6 weeks later for indoor. outdoor will be even later - late August through October. +For instance: 
-     * cloning event in June - say around 18-27 June +  * Spawn (Stropharia) 
-     * we will see the mycelium 2 weeks beforehand. it looks like a cake.  then shock it (light, maybe cold), open it slightly (fresh air), wait a few days 3-4, then pinning. then 7 days to the mushroom. 4-5 days of mushrooms before they fall apart.  +  * Fresh (Wheat) straw 
-     * cloning from stalks of elm oyster. +  * Fresh hardwood chips (up to 6 months’ old Alder, Maple, Birch, Cottonwood, Ash no more than 20% of pile) 
-     * main event mid September. details to follow. +  * Cardboards 
-    +  * plants can be used:  
-   * Ongoing - every 2-3 years a new cloning and re-inoculate logs+  * 3 x tomatoes  
 +  * 3 x basil 
 +  * 1 x oregano 
 +  * 1 x thyme 
 +  * 1 x garlic/onion 
 +  * <del>1 x eggplant</del> (try to find a substitute if you do not like it) 
 +  * <del>1 x zucchini</del> (try to find a substitute if you do not like it) 
 +  * 1 x marjoram 
 +  * Compost (later on) 
 + 
 +=== Beds in the back of the building ===  
 + 
 +// 'Stopharia path'// 
 + 
 +  * Spawn (Stropharia rugusoannulata) 
 +  * Mixed hardwood (work best)  
 +  * Dog or/and cat food soup as a fertilizer (optional) 
 +  * Weeds/cardboard 
 + 
 +//'Stopharia straw bed'// 
 + 
 +  * spawn (Stropharia rugusoannulata) 
 +  * fresh wheat straw 
 +  * cover (old sesame bags, cloth, cardboards, grass shade) 
 + 
 +//'Hugelkultur raised bed' - potato interplanted with mushrooms (oysters)// 
 + 
 +''//we can try to experiment with hugelkultur raised (up to 2m high) bed 
 +potato interplanted with mushrooms (for urban conditions = it can be built 
 +on top of bare ground, concrete, gravel or hanging..)'' 
 + 
 +  * Rotting wood/branches/woody debris 
 +  * Leaves, straw, woodchips, manure, and or compost and soil 
 +  * Wood ash 
 +  * Weeds 
 +  * Hedge clippings  
 +  * Garden soil  
 +  * Coffee grounds 
 +  * Compost and or manure 
 +  * Diluted pee 
 +  * Crushed egg shells 
 +  * Some logs for the edges (can be mushrooms inoculated) 
 +  * Mulch inoculated with gourmet mushrooms  
 +  * Veggies 
 + 
 +=== Mushroom species ordered: ===  
 + 
 +  * 3 x Brown stew fungus, straw spawn 1 litre 
 +  * 1 x Oyster mushroom "Florida" 1 litre 
 +  * 1 x Pleurotus pulmonarius 1 litre 
 +  * 2 x Pink oyster mushroom, grain spawn 1 litre 
 +  * 1 x Elm oyster mushroom, grain spawn 1 litre 
 +  * 1 x Oyster mushroom, grain spawn 1 litre 
 + 
 +=== Inoculation workshop schedule: ===  
 + 
 +  * 1-2 pm - short intro to mushrooms and 'home-cultivation TEK' 
 +  * 2-3.30 pm - hand's on participative demonstrations of log-inoculation methods (bolt, totem and wedge) 
 +  * 30 min - coffee break (to 'produce' coffee grains for the 2d part of the workshop) 
 +  * 4 – 4.30 pm hands-on demonstrations of inoculation  
 +  * 4.30 – 6/7 pm - inoculation party = 'make your hands clean' experimenting with several recipes of the bulk substrates and mushroom species for the indoor and outdoor growing.  
 + 
 +More details and images at: 
 + 
 +[[http://aa-vv.org/node/153]] 
 +[[http://aa-vv.org/node/38]] 
 +[[http://aa-vv.org/node/151]] 
 + 
 + 
 +==== Visit#3 23.-30.5.12 aims to: ==== 
 + 
 +  * Maintenance of the fungal colonies indoor: transferring inoculated mediums from the incubation room/period to the growing-room/period and birthing the fungal mycelium. 
 +  * Maintenance of the fungal colonies outdoor (logs and mushroom beds at the backside of the building). 
 +  * Finishing the experimental design of the mushroom-hugelkulture bed.  
 +  * The interplanting of mushrooms with plants at the suspended and hugel-bed/s. 
 +  * Theoretical research and process documentation along the way. 
 +  * Writing a set of instructions on 'how to maintain in/outdoor mushrooms in order to support the few more indoor-flushes and prepare for the outdoor-fruiting in middle summer. (I'll be away till the middle of August). 
 + 
 +==== Visit#4 08.->12.10 and 21.->22.10.12 ====
  
-==== Practical implementations during Natalia Borissovas residence 01 / 14.03 - 18.03 ====+  * Over viewing and organizing of all the 'myco-experience' @ TU-and-Home NGG into on-/off line smth. 
 +  * 'Lets have a nice "fest"' = (un-)presentation while harvesting, cooking and consuming fruits of all over summer labor of NGG and GG. 
 +  * Preparing beds and logs for winter. 
 +  * What's 'next'?
  
-Photos: http://www.flickr.com/photos/times_up/sets/72157629601830295/+==== Evaluation: ====
  
-** Inoculate some available logs for colonization ** +http://lib.fo.am/resilients/non_green_revolution 
-   * inoculating 3 types of mycelium using plugs which got placed in different types of logs:  +http://lib.fo.am/resilients/go_ask_a_mushroom
-      * Stockschwämmchen (Kuehneromyces) +
-      * Nameko (Pholiota nameko) +
-      * Ulmenseitling (Hypsizygus ulmarius)+
  
  
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